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Tachytes Panzer

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Crabronidae; Subfamily: Crabroninae; Tribe: Larrini; Subtribe: Gastrosericina)

Classification

Tachytes Panzer, 1806

 

Tachytes abercornensis Arnold, 1959 (Zambia)

Tachytes admirabilis Turner, 1916 (Uganda)

Tachytes alacer Arnold, 1960 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes argenteovestitus Cameron, 1910 (South Africa)

Tachytes argyropis de Saussure, 1887 (Madagascar)

Tachytes associatus Turner, 1917 (Mozambique)

Tachytes aurichalceus Kohl in Schletterer, 1891 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Tachytes auripes Berland, 1942 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Tachytes bimetallicus Turner, 1917 (South Africa)

Tachytes braunsi Turner, 1917 (South Africa)

Tachytes bredoi Arnold, 1947 (Zambia)

Tachytes brunneomarginatus Arnold, 1947 (Zambia)

Tachytes bulawayoensis Bischoff, 1913 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes cataractae Arnold, 1923 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes cinerascens Arnold, 1935 (Botswana)

Tachytes confusus Arnold, 1923 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes copiosus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Tachytes danae Arnold, 1923 (Malawi, Zimbabwe)

Tachytes disputabilis Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes distanti Turner, 1917 (South Africa)

Tachytes erynnis Turner, 1917 (South Africa)

Tachytes flavocinereus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Tachytes gondarabai (Guiglia, 1943) (Ethiopia)

Tachytes gracilicornis Arnold, 1944 (Mozambique)

Tachytes habilis Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes hamiltoni Turner, 1917 (Kenya)

Tachytes hirsutus Smith, 1856 (South Africa)

Tachytes indifferens Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Tachytes inexorabilis Turner, 1917 (South Africa)

Tachytes instabilis Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes irritabilis Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes kristenseni Turner, 1917 (Ethiopia)

Tachytes labilis Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes lachesis Turner, 1017 (Malawi)

Tachytes lepidus Arnold, 1929 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes lingnaui Arnold, 1933 (South Africa)

Tachytes longirostris Arnold, 1947 (Zambia)

Tachytes maerens Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes marshalli Turner, 1912 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes melancholicus Arnold, 1923 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes memnon Turner, 1916 (Malawi)

Tachytes midas Arnold, 1929 (Zimbabwe)

 

Tachytes mirus Kohl, 1894 (Mozambique)

Tachytes modestus neglectus Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes natalensis de Saussure, 1854 (South Africa)

Tachytes nigroannulatus Bischoff, 1913 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes lichtenburgensis Arnold, 1923 (South Africa)

Tachytes nigropilosellus (Cameron, 1910) (South Africa)

Tachytes notabilis Turner, 1917 (Kenya, Malawi, Uganda)

Tachytes nudiventris Turner, 1917 (Uganda)

Tachytes observabilis Kohl, 1894 (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Tachytes oppositus Turner, 1917 (Zambia)

Tachytes oviventris de Saussure, 1891 (Madagascar)

Tachytes pallidiventris Arnold, 1947 (Zambia)

Tachytes perornatus Turner, 1917 (Uganda)

Tachytes picticornis Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Tachytes praestabilis Turner, 1917 (Uganda)

Tachytes pulchricornis Turner, 1917 (Malawi)

Tachytes punctuosus Arnold, 1923 (South Africa)

Tachytes rarus Arnold, 1960 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes rhodesianus Bischoff, 1913 (Zimbabwe)

 

Tachytes rufiscutis Turner, 1918 (Malawi)

Tachytes rufomarginatus Arnold, 1945 (Madagascar)

Tachytes sagani Guiglia, 1943 (Ethiopia)

Tachytes separabilis Turner, 1917 (Ghana, Kenya, South Africa)

Tachytes sheppardi Arnold, 1940 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes silverlocki Turner, 1917 (Kenya, Zambia)

Tachytes simulatrix Turner, 1917 (Nigeria)

Tachytes sjoestedti Cameron, 1908 (Kenya)

Tachytes formosus Arnold, 1923 (Zimbabwe)

Tachytes karrooensis Arnold, 1923 (South Africa)

Tachytes testaceinervus Cameron, 1908 (Tanzania)

Tachytes tomentosus Kohl in Scheletterer, 1891 (South Africa)

Tachytes transvaalensis Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)

 

Tachytes turneri Arnold, 1923 (Zimbabwe)

 

Tachytes ugandensis Turner, 1917 (Uganda)

 

Tachytes velox Smith, 1856 (Gambia)

 

Tachytes versatilis Turner, 1917 (Malawi, Uganda)

 

Tachytes volubilis Turner, 1917 (Kenya)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Solitary predatory wasps, provisioning nest constructed in ground or plant stems with paralyzed adult Orthoptera, Hemiptera or Lepidoptera caterpillars for consumption by the wasp larvae.

References

Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Brothers D.J. 1999. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) Zoologica Scripta 28: 233–250.

Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp. 279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014. Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. 320 pp.

Links

CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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